A taxi driver was critically injured when his car caught fire in Ho Chi Minh City early Wednesday morning, local news website VnExpress reported.

According to the news site, Phan Duc Hoa, 33, was sleeping inside the Vinasun taxi, which was parking in front of a gasoline station in District 12, when the fire broke out.

Upon discovering the fire, passers-by shouted for help, alarming other taxi drivers who were sleeping near Hoa's vehicle, the news website said. They quickly drove their cars out of the site to avoid the fire, which flared up and threatened to spread to the fuel station a few meters away.